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Whereas he goes about looking as sober as a covenanter that expected the day of judgment to-morrow and knew he was predestinated for one O' the goats. Methodie convarts don't wear Presbyterian faces. Ned was at first in rather sore straits for a companion, none of his old associates taking well to his reformation.
You blame Lucre and M'Slime for making convarts; but ai'en't you every bit as anxious to bring over the Protestants as they are to bring over us? Aren't you paradin' them Sunday af'ther Sunday, and boastin' that you are takin' more from the heretics than they are takin' from you?
When I seed him a-rollin' an' stompin' an' cavortin' an' axin' the brethren to pray fer him, thinks I, 'Whut you need, Jake, wossen the prayers uv the saints, is a big blacksnake whip larruped ovah yer back. The Lawd does the job up right when he really convarts a man. It's 'onc't in grace, allus in grace, ez the catechism teaches."
"You have done it," he said, "and I knew you would. Now, listen to me are you not as aiger to make convarts as either M'Slime or Lucre?" "You will have it again, you scoundrel," said the curate, approaching him with uplifted whip.
"Plaise your honor," said Darby, who never could be honest to both parties, "there's a batch o' convarts outside waitin' to see you, but between you and me, I think you had as well be on your guard wid some o' them, I know what they want." "And pray, what is that, O'Drive?" "Why, thin, for fraid I may be doin' the crathurs injustice, sir, I won't say; only jist take my hint, any how.
Faith, beggin' your pardon, if you were to see some o' the new convarts, how comfortable they are wid their good frieze coats, and their new warm blankets, sittin' beside their good fires, you'd maybe not blame them so much as you do.
The man and his wife accordingly entered, having first wiped their feet as they had been ordered. "Well, my good man, what's your business." "Rosha, will you let his honor know what we wor spakin' about? She'll tell you, sir." "Plaise your honor," said she, "we're convarts." "Well," said Mr. Lucre, "that is at least coming to the point. And pray, my good woman, who converted you?"
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